LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from p.3)

will be held in Los Angeles in July. I have a bro-

chure with course descriptions and dates. You can

register at (800) 922-2019. They also offer two

Advanced FoxPro development courses but you

have to go to Chicago (the city in Illinois) for

those.

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publica-

tion of the second series of reports called The Pros

Talk Fox , and is offering selected volumes at $29

each. These are excellent sources of information

by first rate authors, and are well worth the price if

the topic matches your interests. For example,

Melissa Dunn’s report on SQL is one of the best

treatments I have seen, Hank Fay offers a com-

plete treatise on Event Driven Programming, and

Whil Hentzen just issued a good methodology for

application development. I will have the list of

topics at the User Meeting. You can order at (800)

231-1293.

Mac Rubel, nationally known writer and speaker

on FoxPro, has announced the availability of

upgraded versions of his two packages of applica-

tion development tools - Power Developers Library

and Development Debugger. He is offering them

at substantial discounts to user group members -

$245 for the pair. I will have brochures at the user

meeting. You can order direct from Mac at (212)

972-2330.

Neon Software is releasing the Windows version

of FoxExpress with many improvements over the

DOS version that Mike Feitman showed us in one

of our earlier meetings. Brochures with product

details are available at the user meeting.

Short Takes...

Lately there have been quite a few celebrities

leaving the United States to make their homes in

other countries. It was only a matter of time before

the exodus hit the FoxPro community. Lisa Slater,

as of July, will be living “down Under’ in Australia.

All is not lost, though. She’s still writing books and

articles, and can still be reached on CompuServe

at 71333,2565.

Out and About (Con't from p.1)

“Everyone benefits when experts share their knowl-

edge and experience, and we want to recognize the

MVP winners for their past and future contributions to

the lively technical dialogues on Microsoft products on

our Compuserve forums.”

.And now the envelope, please. The new crop of

winners are:

Annual MVP’s

Lisa Slater

71 333,2565

Tamar Granor

73227,3303

Jim Booth

72130,2570

Calvin Hsia

72251,1725

Quarterly MVP’s

Nancy Jacobsen

72230,2664

Mike Beane

71175,3160

Brad Schulz

76640,152

George Sexton

73237,1665

Ted Roche

76400,2503

An interesting footnote to this batch of awards was a

response/message posted on CompuServe within

hours of the announcement:

MVP Awards Richard Skinner 72143,3277

Mktg/Sales/lnfoClS:FOXFOR

Just read the News Flash on the MVP awards. I have

no quarrel with the persons named (they are all long-

time MVP’s in my book), but I would have expected to

see three more: Ken Levy, Steven Black, and Andrew

Ross McNeil (maybe also Bill Anderson). These

people may not be on the forum every day, helping out

poor lost souls like me, but they have given us, without

thought of compensation, the fruits of much labor with

the GENX projects and their various auxiliary items

(such as a beautifully executed Help package). If you

will accept nominations from a semi-lurker, please

consider these people nominated!

Richard

A New Newsletter

Chris Date, David McGoveran, and Fabian Pascal,

who bill themselves as “three of the world’s foremost

database experts” have announced plans to publish a

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